MY BLOODY VALENTINE

Friday: Beloved by a small crowd of Anglophiles and '90s alt-rock fans, this distortion-orchestrating Irish band wowed us with its gorgeously whirring, note-bending 1991 album "Loveless" and subsequent touring that brought it to First Ave in '92 — but then the quartet vanished. Guitarist/bandleader Kevin Shields fell off the grid while working on the follow-up, but he finally resurfaced with reunion dates in 2009. He then finished off those recordings as "m b v," a nine-song collection that the quartet self-released to deserved acclaim in February. After 2013 fest dates all over the globe, the band kicks off a short U.S. jaunt here with opener Variety Lights, led by Mercury Rev's David Baker. (7:30 p.m. Fri. $35. Roy Wilkins Auditorium, 175 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul. 1-800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com.)